maestro35
Chieftain
I'm relatively new to the Civ5 realm, and enjoy it thoroughly already. Seeing all of the possibilities with mods, I dove right in and... hit my head on rock bottom. I'm trying to create a new civilization as a gift for someone, and it's going pretty well (despite the slight loss of sanity trying to write the XML for the first time, thanks Kael for making it a slight loss in contrast to the otherwise inevitable total loss). However, adding new units have given me issues. I went through lenny's thread, and it looked legit except for the fact that Nexus Buddy doesn't exist.
SO, I'm looking for a way to create new units (willing to base off of existing ones if that cuts out a lot of time and effort) with new attacks and new effects. I have several problems. First, I have no expertise in editing 3D models, and I don't have a spare 1k greenbacks lying around to buy 3DS Max. I've successfully extracted the unit FPK file using Nexus and have a ton of files that I don't have the resources to view. Nexus crashed when I tried to open the FSMXML in the asset viewer, and a complete uninstallation and reinstallation of Civ5 SDK has not reloaded the now forever missing Assets tab of Nexus. I got ahold of Granny viewer to check out the GR2 files, only for THAT to crash too. I am COMPLETELY at a loss with what to do here, and I'm feeling like I'm losing my sanity. Any help would be really appreciated, I just hope this went in the right forum... Thanks.
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SO, I'm looking for a way to create new units (willing to base off of existing ones if that cuts out a lot of time and effort) with new attacks and new effects. I have several problems. First, I have no expertise in editing 3D models, and I don't have a spare 1k greenbacks lying around to buy 3DS Max. I've successfully extracted the unit FPK file using Nexus and have a ton of files that I don't have the resources to view. Nexus crashed when I tried to open the FSMXML in the asset viewer, and a complete uninstallation and reinstallation of Civ5 SDK has not reloaded the now forever missing Assets tab of Nexus. I got ahold of Granny viewer to check out the GR2 files, only for THAT to crash too. I am COMPLETELY at a loss with what to do here, and I'm feeling like I'm losing my sanity. Any help would be really appreciated, I just hope this went in the right forum... Thanks.
Moderator Action: Moved to the main forum.
The tutorials subform is only for tutorials, not for questions
. 
